Read 25 pages (college prep) or 50 pages (honors) in your selected oral history collection. Use the link below to record your journal entry. Honors students to complete two journal entries from two different parts of the reading.
HOMEWORK for 1/10: Follow this link to the Radio segment "Strangers in a Strange Land" from This American Life (32 minutes).
This American Life
Listen to the story (hit the arrow shape below the picture). Then complete one (two for honors) journal entries on specific details from the segment.
(You can read a transcript of the whole show - the part you're listening to is the second half, so scroll down) at this link: "Strangers in a Strange Land" transcript
“A true warrior successfully straddles the line between brutality and civility”
What is a true warrior? Define
When is killing “right”?
In what situations are brutality and civility necessary?
What are the successes or pitfalls caused by brutality or civility?
How do warriors deal when confronted with temptations?
How warriors deal with emotions, controlling anger, sadness, revenge (coping mechanisms)?
PTSD? What happens when they come home
What is taught through training and conditioning (Reflexive fire)
Civilian to Soldier and back - different rules for different conditions
What motivates the warrior and his actions?
When does it become personal rather then for the greater good?
When does killing cross over to murder?
Is there justification for ones actions by just following orders?
Is it possible to create peace through violence?
What happens when we try to ask soldiers to forget about what they have done?
Requirements
Use 2 Ancient Sources 2 Modern Sources
Gawain Karl Marlantes
Iliad Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Paradise Now
Obama’s Speech
Soldiers of Conscience
Why Do Warriors Need a Code
Works Cited citations - copy and paste only what you actually cited in your work. Double-space and indent the second and subsequent line of any individual citation. You may add to the end of an existing page rather than starting an additional clean page for these.
300. Dir. Zack Snyder. Perf. Gerard Butler. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2007. DVD.
"The 300: Fact or Fiction." Producers Eric Matthies and Tricia Todd. Warner Home Video, 2007. DVD.
Benioff, David. Troy. 2003. Screenplay. Beowulf. Trans. Burton Raffel. New York: Mentor, 1963. Print. Beowulf. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Paramount Pictures, 2008. DVD. Beowulf and Grendel. Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson. Starz/Anchor Bay, 2006. DVD.
French, Shannon E. "Why Do Warriors Need A Code?" Chivalry Today. 2004, 2 May 2008. Web.
"The History of Herodotus, Parallel English/Greek Index." Trans. G.C. Macaulay. London: Macmillan, 1890. Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. Web.
Hoffman, Bruce. "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism." The Atlantic Monthly. June 2003: 40-47. Print.
Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. London: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Gardner, John. Grendel. New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1989. Print.
Marlantes, Karl. What It Is Like to Go to War. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2011. Print
Miller, Frank and Lynn Varley. 300. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 1999. Print.
Obama, Barak. "President Obama's Speech at Nobel Ceremony." Reuters USA. December 10, 2009. 14 December, 2009. Web.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Broadway Books, 1990. Print. The Odyssey. Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky. Lions Gate, 2001. DVD. Paradise Now. Dir. Hany Abu-Assad. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2006. DVD. Reporting America at War. Dir. Stephen Ives. Insignia Films, Inc. and WETA Washington D.C., 2003. DVD.
Rothstein, Edward. "To Homer, Iraq Would be More of the Same," The New York Times. 5 June 2004, 1 October 2009. Web.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Scribner, 1994. Print. Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. Trans. W.S. Merwin. New York: Random House, 2002. Print. Soldiers of Conscience. Dir. Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan. Docurama, 2009. DVD.
Sontag, Susan. "Looking at War." The New Yorker. 9 December, 2002: 82-98. Print. Troy. Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. Warner Home Video, 2005. DVD. Warriors. Perf. Terry Schappert. A&E Television Networks, 2009. DVD.
Ziegenfuss, Chuck, Trueman Muhrer, and Colby Buzzell. "302: Strangers in a Strange Land" This American Life, 15
Nov. 2005. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.
Warrior Tales - White 3
iCal subscription address:
webcal://seneca.fivetowns.net/calendars/GilletteWarriorTales.icsAncient Warrior vs. Modern-Day Soldiers Unit
Reading Logs for Radio segment, Oral History
Read 25 pages (college prep) or 50 pages (honors) in your selected oral history collection. Use the link below to record your journal entry. Honors students to complete two journal entries from two different parts of the reading.Reading Log
HOMEWORK for 1/10: Follow this link to the Radio segment "Strangers in a Strange Land" from This American Life (32 minutes).
This American LifeListen to the story (hit the arrow shape below the picture). Then complete one (two for honors) journal entries on specific details from the segment.
(You can read a transcript of the whole show - the part you're listening to is the second half, so scroll down) at this link:
"Strangers in a Strange Land" transcript
Honors Veteran's Interview product descriptor/rubric
Brutality/Civility Cluster
Notes from in class prep for writing essay:
“A true warrior successfully straddles the line between brutality and civility”What is a true warrior? Define
When is killing “right”?
In what situations are brutality and civility necessary?
What are the successes or pitfalls caused by brutality or civility?
How do warriors deal when confronted with temptations?
How warriors deal with emotions, controlling anger, sadness, revenge (coping mechanisms)?
PTSD? What happens when they come home
What is taught through training and conditioning (Reflexive fire)
Civilian to Soldier and back - different rules for different conditions
What motivates the warrior and his actions?
When does it become personal rather then for the greater good?
When does killing cross over to murder?
Is there justification for ones actions by just following orders?
Is it possible to create peace through violence?
What happens when we try to ask soldiers to forget about what they have done?
Requirements
Use 2 Ancient Sources 2 Modern Sources
Gawain Karl Marlantes
Iliad Logic of Suicide Terrorism
Paradise Now
Obama’s Speech
Soldiers of Conscience
Why Do Warriors Need a Code
Reading Guide for The Iliad
Reading Guide for Gawain and the Green Knight
Honors Warrior Independent Research Project
Storyteller Cluster, including due dates and synthesis question and bibliographic citations
Beowulf reading guide
Earlier presentation with student sample for writing about Warrior Codes
Brief presentation about how to write a synthesis essay
Works Cited citations - copy and paste only what you actually cited in your work. Double-space and indent the second and subsequent line of any individual citation. You may add to the end of an existing page rather than starting an additional clean page for these.
300. Dir. Zack Snyder. Perf. Gerard Butler. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2007. DVD.
"The 300: Fact or Fiction." Producers Eric Matthies and Tricia Todd. Warner Home Video, 2007. DVD.
Benioff, David. Troy. 2003. Screenplay.
Beowulf. Trans. Burton Raffel. New York: Mentor, 1963. Print.
Beowulf. Dir. Robert Zemeckis. Paramount Pictures, 2008. DVD.
Beowulf and Grendel. Dir. Sturla Gunnarsson. Starz/Anchor Bay, 2006. DVD.
French, Shannon E. "Why Do Warriors Need A Code?" Chivalry Today. 2004, 2 May 2008. Web.
"The History of Herodotus, Parallel English/Greek Index." Trans. G.C. Macaulay. London: Macmillan, 1890. Internet Sacred Text Archive Home. Web.
Hoffman, Bruce. "The Logic of Suicide Terrorism." The Atlantic Monthly. June 2003: 40-47. Print.
Homer. The Iliad. Trans. Richmond Lattimore. London: University of Chicago Press, 1961.
Gardner, John. Grendel. New York: Vintage Books Edition, 1989. Print.
Marlantes, Karl. What It Is Like to Go to War. New York: Atlantic Monthly, 2011. Print
Miller, Frank and Lynn Varley. 300. Milwaukie, OR: Dark Horse Books, 1999. Print.
Obama, Barak. "President Obama's Speech at Nobel Ceremony." Reuters USA. December 10, 2009. 14 December, 2009. Web.
O'Brien, Tim. The Things They Carried. New York: Broadway Books, 1990. Print.
The Odyssey. Dir. Andrei Konchalovsky. Lions Gate, 2001. DVD.
Paradise Now. Dir. Hany Abu-Assad. Warner Bros. Entertainment, 2006. DVD.
Reporting America at War. Dir. Stephen Ives. Insignia Films, Inc. and WETA Washington D.C., 2003. DVD.
Rothstein, Edward. "To Homer, Iraq Would be More of the Same," The New York Times. 5 June 2004, 1 October 2009. Web.
Shay, Jonathan. Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character. New York: Scribner, 1994. Print.
Sir Gawain & the Green Knight. Trans. W.S. Merwin. New York: Random House, 2002. Print.
Soldiers of Conscience. Dir. Gary Weimberg and Catherine Ryan. Docurama, 2009. DVD.
Sontag, Susan. "Looking at War." The New Yorker. 9 December, 2002: 82-98. Print.
Troy. Dir. Wolfgang Petersen. Warner Home Video, 2005. DVD.
Warriors. Perf. Terry Schappert. A&E Television Networks, 2009. DVD.
Ziegenfuss, Chuck, Trueman Muhrer, and Colby Buzzell. "302: Strangers in a Strange Land" This American Life, 15
Nov. 2005. Web. 14 Nov. 2012.